William Roberts is a British painter of figure compositions and portraits. He was a pioneer of
abstract art before the First World War.
Roberts worked outside the mainstream. Later in his career he would describe himself as an English
Cubist. In 1914
Roberts joined the short-lived art movement the Vorticists, founded by the artist and writer Wyndam Lewis. The Vorticists believed that
British art at this time was in a decayed state. Their aesthetic combined the geometrical fragmentation of
Cubism with Futurist machine-like imagery. During the First World War,
Roberts was a gunner on the Western Front. Later he became a war artist, a position he held in both world wars. He is best remembered for his large complex and colourful compositions.
Roberts has marked this reference picture with a grid to help him to transfer it to canvas. The canvas is marked with a corresponding grid allowing the picture to be enlarged and transferred one square at a time.
Spørgsmål og svar
Er dette Study for Kites malet i hånden eller er det et print?
Håndmalet: en uddannet maler kopierer Study for Kites i olie på lærred.
Hvilken størrelse skal jeg vælge til Study for Kites?
Størrelserne går fra 30.4 x 32.9 cm (Dkr1329) til 230.3 x 249.3 cm (Dkr13757); tabellen på denne side viser de vigtigste trin og deres priser.
Hvor lang tid tager leveringen?
Levering tager 4 til 5 uger med gratis ekspresforsendelse over hele verden; en mulighed for hasteproduktion tilbydes på denne side. Du kan returnere varen inden for 100 dage med fuld refusion, uden betingelser.
Hvor befinder originalen af Study for Kites sig?
Originalen er i Royal Albert Memorial Museum - Art Gallerys samling i Exeter.
Hvilket medie brugte William Roberts til Study for Kites?
Watercolor